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Black background with white pixelated text 'look a shooting star' and varying star positions across frames.

Black background with white pixelated text 'look a shooting star' and varying star positions across frames. Animated 48×48 GIF AIM buddy icon from Internet Archive FranksIcons Sha…

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Depicts

Action

Style

Mood

Color

Source terms

Animation

  • star positions change
  • star quantities change
  • star brightness changes

Animation Summary

  • Stars move across frames, changing position, quantity, and brightness while text remains static.

Composition

  • text centered
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'look a shooting star' in three lines. Stars vary in position and quantity across frames: top-left corner has one white star in first frame, top-right corner has two white stars in second frame, middle-left has two white stars in third frame, middle-right has three white stars in fourth frame, bottom-left has two white stars in fifth frame, bottom-middle has three white stars in sixth frame, bottom-right has four white stars in seventh frame. Stars are white and gray, with white stars having a brighter appearance. Text remains static across all frames.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'look a shooting star' and varying star positions across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090327133824868627825

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • look a shooting star pixel art
  • shooting star text animation
  • star positions vary
  • white gray stars black background

Preprocessing Notes

  • frame 8 is grayed out

Source Metadata Interpretation

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Visible Text

  • look a shooting star

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • look a shooting star
  • star positions vary
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • text static
  • three lines of text
  • star quantity changes
  • star brightness varies

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Added to archive
July 12, 2026

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)

Source title
20090327133824868627825
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC

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Technical archive details
Format
GIF
Dimensions
48×48 pixels
File size
857 bytes
Motion
Animated (11 frames)
Added to archive
July 12, 2026
Relative path
icons/8d/8db29cfe97a396959175117c1fa8984ab636a909d5b09f673093de6d4312f4f3.gif
Media type
image/gif
Scanner metadata
v1
Animation inspected
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Archive ID
8db29cfe97a39695
SHA-256
8db29cfe97a396959175117c1fa8984ab636a909d5b09f673093de6d4312f4f3
Content-safety assessments (1)
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Assessed
July 23, 2026 at 17:43 UTC
Run
1127
Input
image
Preprocessing
four-even-frames;flatten-rgb192;stretch-224;triangle;nchw-rgb-u8
Overall label
sfw
Overall score
0.079241

OpenAI category scores

CategoryScoreProvider flagonnx/sfw0.926239onnx/unsafe0.079241onnx/nsfw0.040521onnx/nsfl0.038720
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Black background with white pixelated text 'look a shooting star' and varying star positions across frames.

Reviewed
August 19, 2026 at 04:22 UTC
Run
61
Version
v5
Elapsed
10,380 ms
Tokens
prompt 2,124, response 844

Review tags

  • stars move (action, 0.80)
  • black (color, 0.80)
  • gray (color, 0.80)
  • white (color, 0.80)
  • nostalgic (mood, 0.80)
  • playful (mood, 0.80)
  • star positions change (other, 0.80)
  • low resolution (style, 0.80)
  • monochrome (style, 0.80)
  • pixel art (style, 0.80)
  • stars (subject, 0.80)
  • text (subject, 0.80)

Actions

  • stars move

Animation

  • star positions change
  • star quantities change
  • star brightness changes

Animation Summary

  • Stars move across frames, changing position, quantity, and brightness while text remains static.

Colors

  • black
  • white
  • gray

Composition

  • text centered
  • stars scattered

Dense Caption

Black background with white pixelated text 'look a shooting star' in three lines. Stars vary in position and quantity across frames: top-left corner has one white star in first frame, top-right corner has two white stars in second frame, middle-left has two white stars in third frame, middle-right has three white stars in fourth frame, bottom-left has two white stars in fifth frame, bottom-middle has three white stars in sixth frame, bottom-right has four white stars in seventh frame. Stars are white and gray, with white stars having a brighter appearance. Text remains static across all frames.

Description

  • Black background with white pixelated text 'look a shooting star' and varying star positions across frames.

Metadata Not Confirmed By Image

  • provenance era: 2007
  • provenance era: 2016
  • provenance source-name: Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016)
  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Metadata Only Entities

  • franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016
  • 2007-2016
  • franksicons
  • 20090327133824868627825

Metadata Supported By Image

  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons

Mood

  • playful
  • nostalgic

Non Redundant Search Phrases

  • look a shooting star pixel art
  • shooting star text animation
  • star positions vary
  • white gray stars black background

Objects

  • stars

Preprocessing Notes

  • frame 8 is grayed out

Source Metadata Interpretation

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  • provenance era: 2016
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  • provenance collection-attribute: aim
  • provenance collection-attribute: buddy-icons
  • provenance collection-attribute: historical-archive
  • provenance topic-coverage: anime
  • provenance topic-coverage: celebrities
  • provenance topic-coverage: games
  • provenance topic-coverage: holidays
  • provenance topic-coverage: humor

Style

  • pixel art
  • low-resolution
  • monochrome

Subjects

  • text
  • stars

Visible Text

  • look a shooting star

Wordwall

  • black background
  • white pixelated text
  • look a shooting star
  • star positions vary
  • white stars
  • gray stars
  • text static
  • three lines of text
  • star quantity changes
  • star brightness varies
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Full source records (1)

Internet Archive FranksIcons Shared Buddy Icons (2007-2016) (internet-archive-franksicons-shared-2007-2016)

Kind
local-directory
Era
Late-2000s to Mid-2010s Shared Buddy Icons
Type
Internet Archive tar preservation of the FranksIcons shared buddy-icon store
Title
20090327133824868627825
Archive entry
20090327133824868627825.gif
Observed
July 12, 2026 at 15:55 UTC
Rights
mixed anonymous, fan, commercial, and copyrighted imagery; research/reference only by default
Slice
large cross-sectional user-shared AIM buddy-icon collection spanning personal identity, fandom, music, humor, relationships, moods, holidays, and internet culture

Original: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090327133824868627825.gif Download: https://archive.org/download/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016.tar#20090327133824868627825.gif Page: https://archive.org/details/franksicons.com-shared-buddy-icons-2007-2016